Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements January 15, 2015
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments;and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. _______________________________________________________________________ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 10:26:14 -0500 From: Sonia Beth Gollance <[email protected]> Subject: CFP Minority Reports - University of Pennsylvania Graduate Student Conference CFP - Yiddish-related submissions encouraged Minority Reports: Representing Social Identity in (New) Media February 24, 2012 NEW DEADLINE: January 15, 2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUNCED: Martha Helfer (Rutgers University) New modes of mass communication stimulate evolution in non-dominant group identity while also fostering innovation in minority (self-)representation. This has been the case for centuries: from depictions of "das boese Weib" in 17th century broadsheets to the emergence of Yiddish-language Facebook groups, technological progress alters the landscape of language and identity. Our conference aims to investigate the specific ways in which new media engender new visual and textual representations of minority status. We will focus on material from across the Germanic languages from the Early Modern period to the present day. We invite submissions that may engage with, but are not limited to, the following topics: * Legal implications of minority status in moments of transition to new(er) media * Censorship * Immigration * Minor Germanic languages in transition * Creation of new minorities within existing ones or within previously homogeneous populations * Changes in representation of and by minority groups in the digital age * Interactions between minority and majority groups * Gender, race, and class as minority terms * Political cartoons/ broadsheets Please send your 250-300 word abstracts in both in the body of the e-mail and as a *.doc or *.docx attachment to Sonia Gollance and Maya Vinokour at [email protected] by January 15, 2012. Submissions should include the paper title, author~Rs name, affiliation, and e-mail address. Sonia Gollance Germanic Languages and Literatures University of Pennsylvania 435 Williams Hall, 255 S. 36th St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 ______________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Responses to Mendele Personal Notices & Annoucements should be sent directly to the person whom or organization which posted the item. Material for posting in Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements,typically ,announcements of events, commercial publications, and questions not of general interest to the membership, should be sent to: : [email protected] (IMPORTANT! in the subject line write "Mendele Personal") Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e, inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature:and likely to interest the membership in general, should be sent to [email protected] IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: [email protected] Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ To read issues of Mendele not yet archived on the website (see above), or to join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
